Re: WTB: Pentium D LGA775 CPU...

You know, I have been trying to follow the Intel stuff since they have the upper hand on CPU's. But what are they thinking with some of this stuff. You have to really watch what motherboard you are getting in order to make it work with the CPU you want.

Amd only had a couple fubars and that was short lived anyway. I got the Socket AM2 before the plus came out and can put in the Phenom when it gets a bit faster. This replaced a Socket A.

Well, I guess I will never figure Intel out and just stick with the faithful AMD.

Re: WTB: Pentium D LGA775 CPU...

Originally Posted by garrettpf

You know, I have been trying to follow the Intel stuff since they have the upper hand on CPU's. But what are they thinking with some of this stuff. You have to really watch what motherboard you are getting in order to make it work with the CPU you want.

Amd only had a couple fubars and that was short lived anyway. I got the Socket AM2 before the plus came out and can put in the Phenom when it gets a bit faster. This replaced a Socket A.

Well, I guess I will never figure Intel out and just stick with the faithful AMD.

AMD has been way worse about that. P4 originally debuted on a socket 423 (way back in the day) but was quickly replaced with socket 478. They used 478 for about 5 years until they released LGA775 with the introduction of the Pentium Ds and followed by the core 2 duos. Athlon xps ran on socket A forever, then they came out with socket 754 for the athlon64s. Socket 754 was quickly replaced by socket939. Then that was replaced by AM2, wchih was followed by the backwards compatible AM2+.

AMD was the one who was making it confusing, not Intel.

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